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Following the shocking events of last month’s INDESTRUCTIBLE HULK finale, Bruce Banner lies at death’s door! If he survives, it WON’T be as the Bruce Banner we’ve known! How will the Hulk wreak vengeance on Banner’s assailant? How CAN he?

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The cover title "Who Shot Bruce Banner?" becomes "Who shot the Hulk?" on the cover page. Answer: every army soldier since 1962 (and that's one of the "biggest mysteries in Hulk History" answered).

A brain doctor is practically shanghaied by SHIELD to operate on a mystery person whom they disclose is the Hulk only when they put him in the operating theater. Good thing this is a comic where the Doctor just gets to work instead of barfing and freaking out as would happen anywhere else.

A Hulk origin recap ensues where once again it's all Ricks Jones' fault and not a whiff of a mention of the Russian spy's involvement. Nice retcon that people thought the Hulk was from some other dimension. Wait, said retcon now says Banner was disgraced and dropped from sight, Guess Waid and the editor never read Hulk's 2-6 and the majority of Tales to Astonish. Nice touch with the Zzaxx (one of my favorite issues). Carpenter thinking about the little girl is from out of nowhere, so she must be a player in a later issue.

Okay - that's not SHIELD after all, but whoever it is, is an idiot. He's practically telling the Doctor he's dead the moment he's finished - Doc only choice is to kill Banner (which of course he won't do).

And tada - the little girl is all grown up and saves the day (what luck that the little girl grew up to become an anesthesiologist and it's even better, nay, impossible luck that the same girl was shanghaied along with the rest of the surgical team.

Banner Hulks out - but apparently his healing factor is now gone.

Can't remember if I read that the Beehive Enclave guys were involved - but if I didn't, that sure looks like their teleport tech.

It takes two weeks for (the real) SHIELD or the Enclave (that's what I'm calling them I guess) to find Banner? yeah.

And, Banner's an idiot. All right, I know I've been critical going through this issue, but this is great. As someone who has not at all liked Banner pretending to be in the same room as the Richards, Starks & Pyms of the world - this works!

Waid's always had a fairly good grasp on the Hulk IMO (although not as good as his take on Daredevil), but Bagley's art is what really has me excited. The art looks sharp, albeit a bit reminiscent of Ultimate Spider-Man in at least one point.

Thought this was a novel direction to go in. I was surprised by the reveal at the end and I'm curious as to when/if they'll "fix" everything and revert to the status quo.

I've been enjoying Waid's work on the Hulk and I'm sticking with it (unless something really craptastic happens).

Hulk #1 - As much as I had enjoyed most of the previous Hulk series, I struggled through the "Humanity Bomb" arc probably a little bit more than I should have. So much so that I wasn't sure that I even wanted to continue reading Hulk but I gave this "new" series a try and I'm actually quite happy that I did. The new series opens up almost immediately where the previous series left off; Bruce Banner has been shot, point blank in the back of the head, while in a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility. Questions like "Why didn't Banner turn into the Hulk immediately upon being hit by the bullet like he would have at any other point in time in the history of the Incredible Hulk" are answered, albeit relatively unsatisfactorily but it all serves as a platform into introduce the idea that the assault on Banner was an intriguingly well thought-out plan. Banner was shot twice in the back of the head but only to incapacitate him, not kill him. The world's best brain surgeon, who happens to have went to school with Bruce Banner, is brought into to perform the operation that will remove the bullets from Banner's brain and save his life. Living blood and tissue samples are being taken from Banner while the doctor is at work. And the revelation that S.H.I.E.L.D. is not being any of this and whoever is, is attempting to weaponize the Hulk through this procedure. It's all rather intriguing but not necessarily new in terms of Hulk related stories, until we arrive at the final, shocking revelation of the issue. If I hadn't read the final issue of Indestructible Hulk just before reading this issue, I may have let a few little clues slip by me unnoticed but my interest in Mark Waid's Hulk may have been renewed all over again.